"The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop."

"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."

"Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game."

"Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight."

"I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can."

"I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age."

"I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies."

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."